Tag Archives: Geraldo Rivera

Geraldo Rivera: I’ve Quit Fox News After 23 Years

Variety reports: Geraldo Rivera has called Fox News his home since leaving CNBC in 2001 to join as the cable outlet’s ostensible war correspondent. He appears to have a lost a recent battle. After being ousted from a rotation on “The Five,” Rivera said in a video post on Twitter Thursday, he is leaving Fox News. “I’ve been fired from …

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Geraldo Rivera Quits Fox Show Over “Growing Tension”

The Associated Press reports: Geraldo Rivera has quit as one of the lonely liberal voices on Fox News’ popular political combat show “The Five,” saying Wednesday that “a growing tension that goes beyond editorial differences” made it no longer worth it to him. The last scheduled appearance on “The Five” for the television veteran, whose 80th birthday is on July …

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Geraldo: GOP Is A “Witch Doctor/Mumbo Jumbo Cult”

The New York Daily News reports: On the same day Fox News announced Geraldo Rivera had signed a multiyear deal to stay with the network he’s called home for 20 years, the mustachioed correspondent — who will also usher in Fox Nation’s return of the program “Cops” — laid down the law for Republicans who aren’t getting with the program …

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Geraldo Lashes Out At “Arrogant, Selfish” Anti-Vaxxers

The New York Daily News reports: Geraldo Rivera went off on anti-vaxxers Tuesday, which did not go over well with Fox News viewers who witnessed his blunt invective. “If you are unvaccinated, you are an arrogant, selfish SOB,” Rivera declared. Fox News’ observers on social media went ballistic on the mustached TV newsman, who is frequently at odds with his …

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Geraldo Rivera Doesn’t Understand First Amendment

The New York Daily News reports: Fox News correspondent and law school graduate Geraldo Rivera is accusing Facebook of denying Donald Trump his constitutional rights. Twitter spoke freely about the mustached pundit’s understanding of the First Amendment. “Facebook is full of s–t,” Rivera tweeted after the social media platform decided to uphold its suspension of the 45th president’s account following …

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Geraldo Blames Fox “Freak Out” For Dashing Senate Bid

Mediaite reports: “Well, you know what happens? You wake up, you have a dream and the thing is you probably should keep your dream to yourself,” Geraldo explained. “Instead I started talking to Erica about it and we both got very enthusiastic,” adding that, as a moderate Republican, he can do something in a state like Ohio. “The reaction, the …

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Geraldo Drops Senate Plans After Teaser Falls Flat

Cleveland’s NBC News affiliate reports: After as social media frenzy Wednesday night, Geraldo Rivera has quickly opted out of a potential run for the United States Senate in 2022. The open seat is a result of Rob Portman’s impending retirement that he announced in January. The veteran media personality and Northeast Ohio resident first made his possible intentions public via …

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Geraldo Floats Run For Portman’s Senate Seat In Ohio

Bloomberg News reports: Television journalist Geraldo Rivera says he may run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by retiring Ohio Senator Rob Portman. Rivera, in a tweet tagged from Siesta Key, Florida, said he was “pondering running” for Portman’s seat. Rivera, 77, has lived in Shaker Heights, Ohio, since 2017 and has hosted a radio show “Geraldo in Cleveland” …

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Geraldo: Trump Is Guilty And I Hope He Isn’t Convicted

“I believe that President Trump is guilty as charged of inciting that mob. Not specifically to go and ravage the Capitol, but his words and actions following his refusal to accept the election for 77 days and the inflammatory rhetoric he used about the ‘big steal’ and so forth. He deserved this admonition from Congress. I hope he’s not convicted.” …

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Fox’s Geraldo Rivera: “Trump Should Be Impeached”

The Hill reports: Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera is calling for President Trump to be impeached, accusing the president of lighting “a fuse that exploded in the U.S. Capitol” in the wake of the violent riot in the U.S. Capitol last week. Rivera, who had previously been a close Trump ally, said in a video shared on Twitter Wednesday that he …

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Geraldo Rivera Begs Trump To Stop: You’re Going To Cause A “Devastating Loss” In Georgia’s Senate Races

“I can’t imagine why the Republican senators aren’t rallying around the Georgia Republicans, the secretary of state and the governor there, and saying, ‘The system in Georgia will work. You got to vote. Everything is at stake here.’ “I think that the president is on the wrong course here. I think he’s gotta take a real gut check between now …

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Geraldo: “We Lost But Fight On For Trumpism” [VIDEO]

“I know that many of you want me to continue denying the results of the election, continue cheerleading for the fight against the result, the Biden victory, I can’t do that. There is no realistic prospect that any legal challenge will overturn the results of the election. Election 2020 is over. We lost.” – Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera, in …

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Geraldo: Name The COVID Vaccine For Trump [VIDEO]

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump is down in the dumps. As he gradually comes to term with election defeat, Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera has come up with a bright idea to cheer him up. Speaking on Friday morning’s Fox & Friends, Rivera suggested naming the COVID-19 vaccine after Trump so he doesn’t feel so bad about himself. …

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Geraldo To Trump: “Walk Away With Grace And Dignity”

The New York Daily News reports: Geraldo Rivera is urging President Trump to walk away with “grace and dignity.” The veteran reporter read an “open letter” to his pal on Twitter Thursday where he praised the president’s battle against the pandemic, among other things. “You came so close in this election, but time coming soon to say goodbye with grace …

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Geraldo’s Yard Sign: “Leaning Trump, May Vote Kanye”

Page Six reports: Flashy Fox newsman Geraldo Rivera and his wife, Erica, are at odds over the presidential election, he told Page Six — and their political battle has been played out on their front lawn for all to see. Geraldo revealed that Erica and their teenage daughter are Democrats — and Erica has even placed a Biden-Harris sign in …

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Geraldo Calls Trump “Brave” For His Ghislaine Maxwell Well Wishes, Says Her Bail Denial Is Just “Woke Politics”

Yahoo News reports: Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera says President Donald Trump was “brave” to offer well wishes to accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. And Rivera didn’t stop there, saying the pre-trial detention of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged procurer of underage girls is just “woke politics.” In another surreal moment in Trump press conference history, the president was asked Tuesday by a …

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Geraldo Blames Media For Far-Right Lockdown Protests

“By addressing half of the American people and crafting everything they do, or say, opinion or news, for that half of the American people, they do a grave disservice. “The unrest that you see now, the populist unrest is a direct result of that dissembling, that lying, that partisan reportage. “They are not doing the job of communicating to the …

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Wild Blowup On Hannity After Geraldo Rips Stephen Miller, Gets Told Any Criticism Is “Chinese Propaganda”

The Washington Examiner reports: A Fox News segment went ballistic after conservative commentator Dan Bongino accused Geraldo Rivera of repeating Chinese propaganda. “Dan, bail me out,” Sean Hannity said on the Thursday night segment after Rivera claimed President Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller authored a “Muslim ban.” “Geraldo, you realize you’re repeating Chinese propaganda here?” Bongino asked. “Don’t give me …

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Geraldo: Trump Should Comp The G7’s Rooms At Doral

“In Washington, you know, there is this toxic atmosphere — some of it created, fairly, by the president himself, with some of these policies. I mean, why in the world he wants to host Doral National golf club in Miami. Why does the president want to host the G-7 there? It just flies in the face of the Constitution. I …

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Geraldo Rivera Condemns Trump “Bloodbath” Video

“I was very, very outraged by Kathy Griffin when she had the head of the president, remember, and she was excoriated for it, almost wrecked her career, which rebounded because Trump hatred was sufficient and brought her back and made her popular again. “But I think it’s very dangerous when you start going there. I don’t like it. It’s not …

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